Maria Tsaptsinos

...started playing table tennis during the last year of her primary schooling and then joined Kingfisher club whereas she trained with Brian Halliday and later had weekly sessions with Gareth Herbert. Then she was invited to Lilleshall and Sheffield for the Youth Development Squad and consequently to the International Youth Squad. Represented England in various tournaments since 2012 and participated at the Youth Europeans as a Caded and Junior. In 2015 the first call for a senior cap came for the Europeans and Table Tennis Commonwealth.
Maria currently is a scholar at University of Nottingham studying Geography.
Her other interests include football, music and spends time socialising on facebook.


Sponsors: Tees Sport, Spire Dunedin Hospital, SSE with the help of SportsAid, Table Tennis 365, TASS


Friday, 29 March 2013

Junior Masters Results



Presentation of the top three junior girls

The postponed Junior Masters took place at Grantham College over the weekend of 16-17 March 2013. The format of the tournament is for 14 junior girls to compete against each other over two days. Unfortunately one of the players could not make it so the results below are against the other 12 girls.

vs Letitia McMullan 3-1 ( -8 8 3 6)
with Alan Cooke
vs Kate Nixon 3-0 (5 10 1)
vs Janay Gibson 3-0 (10 4 4)
vs Lois Peake 3-0 (9 14 8)
vs Amy Humphries 3-1 (5 -10 9 9)
vs Olivia Church 3-0 (10 8 6)
vs Nicole Finn 3-0 (2 7 1)
vs Emily Bolton 3-1 (-3 8 7 8)
vs Ella Patel 3-0 (3 4 5)
vs Megan Knowles 3-0 (4 8 8)
vs Daniella Gray 3-0 (4 3 5)
vs Tin Tin Ho 0-3 (-6 -8 -9)

Therefore the results went with form and Maria who was seeded second finished the tiring weekend on the predicted position.

One of the interesting games was against Letitia, Maria had a bye for the first round due to the absence of the 14th player, and Letitia was one set up and 8-3 up on the second for Maria to turn it around by winning 8 straight points.

All photos courtesy of Michael Loveder

with Dimitris at the end



Lois, Tin Tin,  Maria 

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